• the four main influential figures to Filipino women writers are Gabriela Silang, Leonor Rivera (pictured), Imelda Marcos and Corazon Aquino?

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Pope John Paul II

• Pope Benedict XVI received George W. Bush this month in a medieval tower where Pope John Paul II resided temporarily while his papal apartments were being remodeled?
• Pope John Paul II placed rosary devotions (example pictured) at the very center of Christian spirituality and called them "among the finest and most praiseworthy traditions of Christian contemplation"?
• Pope John Paul II traveled more than all his predecessors combined?
• press agent Lee Solters had Pope John Paul II made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter, represented Frank Sinatra for decades and claimed to have known client Dolly Parton "since she was flat-chested"?
• Jacques-Désiré Laval (pictured), a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
• one of those killed in the mass murders in Piaśnica, Sister Alicja Kotowska, was beatified together with 107 other victims of Nazi terror in 1999 by Pope John Paul II?
• retired Sacramento bishop Alden John Bell was stabbed in his office while preparing for a trip to see Pope John Paul II?
• the Baroque church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi (pictured), which houses the hearts of 25 popes, was presented to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church by Pope John Paul II?
• the postage stamps of the Palestinian National Authority have featured many well-known figures, but those with Pope John Paul II might be fake illegal stamps?
• the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, a book of Aztec herbal remedies in Latin, was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential visit to the United States in 1957 was only the second time that Dwight D. Eisenhower had greeted a guest in person at the airport?
• Donold Lourie, a former Princeton University football star, was appointed to a State Department post by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
• Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
• Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, trained Iran's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion?
• Thomas C. Molesworth designed furniture for the houses of the Rockefeller family and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
• all U.S. Presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan ordered glassware from Fostoria Glass Company of Moundsville, West Virginia?
• award-winning television editor Walter Balderson was the only TV cameraman inside the White House for the 1953 Inauguration Day meeting between U.S. President Truman and President-elect Eisenhower?
• during the Korean War the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (pictured) received a Presidential Unit Citation from Dwight D. Eisenhower for their heroism in the Battle of Kapyong?
• the Isted Lion, an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
• the Transcontinental Motor Convoys inspired Dwight D. Eisenhower to support the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956?

Muammar al-Gaddafi

• Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi created the paramilitary Islamic Legion primarily associated with the seven year Libyan-Chadian War?
• activist Michael Mansell convinced Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to recognise an Aboriginal Australian passport to draw world attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights?
• despite historically good relations, Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi called for Switzerland's dissolution in September 2009?

Jimmy Carter

• Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell and Evander Holyfield were all election monitors at the 1997 Jamaican general election?
• Charles Morgan, Jr. resigned from his ACLU position after the group's head criticized Morgan for calling a New Yorker a bigot for his refusal to consider voting for Jimmy Carter as President?
• Dorothy Sarnoff taught presentation skills to U.S. President Jimmy Carter that included having him tone down his smile?
• as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter, Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?
• in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre (pictured), a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England?
• the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter's last months in office?

Gerald Ford

• All-American footballer Paul G. Goebel (pictured) recommended Gerald Ford to the coach of the Michigan football team and later urged Ford to run for Congress?
• Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
• comedian Bob Hope, U.S. President Gerald Ford and, according to the Washington Post, every great African American professional golfer except Tiger Woods have played at Langston Golf Course?
• future U.S. President Gerald Ford waited tables at the fraternity house of Michigan halfback Herman Everhardus?
• talks between President Gerald Ford and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1975 were held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida?
• team MVP Gerald Ford (pictured) recalled that Michigan's 1934 "Punt, Pass and Prayer" offense lost punter John Regeczi and passer "Hard Luck Bill" Renner and "all we had left was the prayer"?

Fidel Castro

• Cuban politician Raúl Chibás defected to the United States via motor boat to Miami after initially supporting Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution?
• Argentine spy Bill Gaede was so successful in his clandestine operation of sending technical information from AMD to Cuban representatives that he was invited to meet Fidel Castro?
• an exploding cigar was at the heart of an alleged plot by the Central Intelligence Agency to assassinate Fidel Castro?
• despite denouncing Fidel Castro's 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President?
• former Key West mayor Captain Tony Tarracino was a subject of Cuba Crossing, a 1980 film about a plot to kill Fidel Castro, and of the 1985 Jimmy Buffett song "Last Mango in Paris"?
• in 1988, after flying to space with first Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Méndez, Yuri Romanenko was invited to an underwater fishing trip with Fidel Castro?
• photographer Burt Glinn was at a New Year's Party when Fidel Castro took over Cuba, and he arrived at the scene before dawn?

Harold Wilson

• the UK National Industrial Relations Court was controversial throughout its short life from 1971 to 1974, and was abolished soon after the Labour government of Harold Wilson came to power?